Comments on: Monorail: Kludge Of The Future http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/ Epic Kludges and Jury Rigs Wed, 23 May 2012 07:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: eezchay http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-61738 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:11:27 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-61738 disney magic happens with faith, trust, and painters tape. o ya, theres pixie dust someone along the way too…..

]]> By: Bruce http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-49553 Wed, 05 May 2010 19:11:38 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-49553 Pardon me, but you mipspledded the late Jack Wagner as ‘announcer guy’.

]]> By: fishtape http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-49508 Wed, 05 May 2010 15:47:50 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-49508 A job well Gum’D!

]]> By: Key Poulan http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-22681 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:48:50 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-22681 I took this picture in November of 2008. Yes, it’s one of the newer monorails at Disneyland. Kludges don’t last long there so I was happy to get the shot!

]]> By: Joe doesn't know http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-21994 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:50:21 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-21994 woohoo, safety rules!!!

]]> By: Bruce http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-21970 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:45:22 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-21970 It’s Disneyland, and the original trains were deliberately built at ~5/8 scale because the original ALWEG design (still running in Seattle) would have been too big. It was a prototype system, and they didn’t want “Huge”. So Bob Gurr scaled them down.

(Just like the DL Railroad, 3′ Narrow Gauge with ~5/8 scaled cars.)

Over the years the Monorail trains got longer by adding two passenger cars in the middle and extending the station platforms, but they can’t get larger or they would start to hit things like buildings, and the bottom of the other beam where they cross under…

]]> By: Bruce http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-21962 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:36:21 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-21962 Delete this one, leave the second please – it didn’t get the HTML tags on the URL’s.

]]> By: Bruce http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-21959 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:34:38 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-21959 I should submit the photo to ASME.org, they’ll revoke the Mechanical Engineering Landmark plaque… http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/Landmarks/Disneyland_Monorail_System.cfm

This is fairly recent kludge – this photo has Monorail Red with the “third generation” windows fix, with the tilt-out bottom and half-open top. Can’t have a hole big enough to jump out of like the old trains used safely for decades…

And it has the first fix they tried, the emergency exit hatch on the roof with the grafted on vent scoops. When the new monorails first arrived the windows didn’t hardly open at all, and anytime it was over 80-F outside they turned into Easy Bake Ovens…

Now THAT whole mess is truly worthy of an “I Fixed It!” There was over a year of finger-pointing on who messed it up, when it was a comedy of oversights on all sides – search the archives at http://www.micechat.com for the whole grisly story.

]]> By: Bruce http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-21958 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:33:11 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-21958 I should submit the photo to ASME.org, they’ll revoke the Mechanical Engineering Landmark plaque…

This is fairly recent kludge – this photo has Monorail Red with the “third generation” windows fix, with the tilt-out bottom and half-open top. Can’t have a hole big enough to jump out of like the old trains used safely for decades…

And it has the first fix they tried, the emergency exit hatch on the roof with the grafted on vent scoops. When the new monorails first arrived the windows didn’t hardly open at all, and anytime it was over 80-F outside they turned into Easy Bake Ovens…

Now THAT whole mess is truly worthy of an “I Fixed It!” There was over a year of finger-pointing on who messed it up, when it was a comedy of oversights on all sides – search the archives at for the whole grisly story.

]]> By: Ruby Tuesday http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2009/12/14/monorail-kludge-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-21817 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:17:38 +0000 http://thereifixedit.com/?p=5449#comment-21817 Disneyland is held together with duck tape AND pixie dust.

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